To go all the way back, lawmakers passed the antitrust laws because they wanted to favor competition over consolidation, the basic idea being that when businesses have to compete they generally produce better outcomes in terms of lower prices, better… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
The long-term interests of consumers include product quality, variety and innovation - factors best promoted through both a robust competitive process and open markets. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Antitrust is really about making sure that companies are succeeding by competing on the merits. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
I think we need to be very wary of systems where it's the public that is carrying the burden of doing cleanup. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
If you look at the antitrust lawsuit against IBM, the antitrust lawsuit against AT&T, the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, each of those ended up… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
A market in which the only ideas that are ever brought to market are the ideas that you think will be appealing to the… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
I'm grateful that the FTC is viewed as a leader internationally and all credit goes to our terrific staff at the office of international… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
The FTC is entirely pro-innovation, and a lot of our work is about ensuring that companies are able to compete in a fair way… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
If we want a healthier, more diverse market - and more variety in our Halloween buckets - we could start by reviving some of… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Our obligation is to preserve competition and make sure that mergers are not unlawfully lessening competition. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
In the technology markets, we went through a couple of decades where we saw over 800 acquisitions by the five big players, not a… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
It's no surprise to me personally that monopolists, and executives associated with monopolies, would prefer that the anti-monopoly cops just go away. But that's… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
I'll say, as a general matter, we follow the facts where they take us. And there are certainly matters, when they first hit my… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
At a basic level, I'm interested in imbalances in market power and how they manifest. That's something you can see not just in tech… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
